Plate IQ Weekend Reads

Five articles pertaining to restaurants, food, or booze to get you through the weekend:

1. Here’s anarticlefromWired, investigating whether a new barley genome will lead to a better beer.

2. ABloombergessaymakes the argument that food has replaced music’s place in American culture.

3. If you hadn’t heard already, it appears thatLucky Peach, the plucky, intrepid food magazine co-founded by Momofuku emperor David Chang,has folded. The May issue will be the last.

4. Bad news for oenophiles. Many of France’s finest wine producing areashave been struckby frost damage. The frost has hit Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Champagne. It’s too early to see how many grapes are lost, but losses are expected to be significant. One owner estimated that his St.-Emilion vineyard will lose 90 percent of its 2017 harvest.

5.Ellewadesinto the unsettled debate over whether eating fat is good or bad.

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